If you’re working with Ruby and have been paying attention to Twitter or RSS feeds, then you’ve probably heard of Gemcutter. If not, it’s the latest flavour for publishing gems, and I’m finding the simplicity of it a delight.

Its appearance is doubly useful, as since GitHub has moved to Rackspace, automated gem building from projects has been disabled, perhaps never to return.

Getting Started

If you’ve not clicked the link to Gemcutter yet, let’s run down how easy it is to get it set up on your machine.

My Gems

Incoming Confusion

There’s been some discussion about whether Gemcutter should replace the gem hosting facilities provided by Rubyforge. This may or may not happen, but it is confirmed that Gemcutter will be moving to rubygems.org soon.

Everything will still work fine via the gemcutter.org address, though, so don’t let that hold you back from diving in head first.

Hat-tip

The talented Nick Quaranto has been working hard on this for a while, and it’s great to see the Ruby community embrace Gemcutter so quickly. Here’s hoping it becomes the defacto gem source for all Ruby projects.

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